Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warning the British public against producing "on tick" (credit), selling "on tick" and buying "on tick," the Parliamentary Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department, one Arthur M. Samuel, "ticked off" (reprimanded) a London Chamber of Commerce meeting for countenancing within the United Kingdom "the habit of installment buying," which he called "a trade built upon sand...
...habit," but he "earnestly" hoped that "the honorable gentlemen whom I am now addressing" would see to it that the practice was limited; for, said he, goods so bought "neither earn their cost nor redeem themselves out of earnings," and sales so made are "a drug to trade...
...most exciting periods in its history. Prices of time-tried shares, long leaders in what has become known as the Coolidge market, were slashed unmercifully by the short interests, marking a decline on the exchange that reflected the country-wide depression now being experienced in almost every avenue of trade. U. S. Steel common, General Motors, General Electric and N. Y. Central shares, known as financial bellwethers and representative of industrial, railway and utility activity, were unable to offer their usual resistance to the present economic disquiet and concluded at prices considerably lower than they have notched for months...
...published, are a review of "French Industry and Mass Production" by Andre Siegfried, French manufacturer, a "Valuation of Plates and Publishing Rights" by J. D. Phillips '97 of Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, and a study on "Marketing Biscuits and Crackers" by W. H. S. Stevens of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington...
Aerial route time-tables, posters, maps, photographs, and charts are pouring into the Business School library from America, Europe, and Asia, in preparation for the study of industrial aviation in Business Policy 12, under the supervision of Professor J. A. de Haas, William Ziegler Professor of Foreign Trade...